While I know its not as good as IRV, this is why I like approval voting - people understand it. "vote for as many people as you want, whoever has the most votes wins".
IRV is a little harder - "Rank your preferences in order. In the event of a runoff that doesn't include your first choice, we'll use your second choice.
Look at the 2000 election and say that it worked. a) people can't vote for third parties because their vote is wasted and they risk "spoiling". This means that people cannot vote for the person they want to be President. This is wrong.
b) majority did not rule. That is wrong. Anything other than popular vote is a mockery of the individual. One man, one vote, just like you said. Electoral college does not fit that description.
You can't tell me of the sixteen thousand bitmap file formats that there isn't one existing one with an open specification that doesn't fit the bill, and its just that camera companies are too combative to use it. To me this sounds like just another Adobe lock-in.
And people have been telling me that I don't need lossy images with alpha for years. Deal with it.
Right. Name one piece of mainstream software that supports any form of "arbitrary channel jpeg". And if I did do such a think, would it open in FireFox or exploder? I'm lucky if I can get a compression slider in most apps.
Just what the world needs. Another closed image format. Well, pdf beat gzipped postscript (and now MS is gonna give PDF a run for its money), so kiss png goodbye.
How about people work on something we actually need? Like a standard lossy format with support for alpha? There are nineteen gazillion common lossless systems, but only one common lossy system.
Simple: I live in basement appartments, the DSL box is in the computer room 2 floors up. Either a) I stard drilling holes in walls for cat5, or b) I go wireless. I went b, with a nice Linksys router and some G cards.
Engineers can lose their licenses, their careers, etc. simply for doing what they're told by their employers. Doctors can be sued into the dirt for screwing up.
Well, one unfortunate fact about Halo that other games do better (such as the aforementioned DoA games) is the splitscreen. Its more fun watching a single game than multiple small screen games split up out of one big screen. A multiplayer single-screen brawl game such as Bomberman, Super Smash Bros, or PowerStone II would be best, imho. Fast enough to run a tournament that way too, and let the whole audience play.
The reason they say its safer is because they took advantage of the new processor features that allow you to mark a block of memory as "non-executable" thus stopping buffer overrun 'sploits and similar problems. Linux doesn't have this feature.
The catch is this: most of the modern windows 'sploits aren't buffer overruns into non-executable memory, they're just malware using the MS application tools like ActiveX.
So, it is probably true that the Microsoft kernel is more secure than the Linux kernel. The respective operating systems, viewed from a holistic perspective, may not be.
Now, I didn't RTFA, but I really hope that they don't make it like MERP (the Rolemaster based pnp rpg), where any player can just be a high-elf, or a half-elf, or a wizard, or an ent, or something else that's supposed to be rare as diamonds. Its a stupid world where the rare peoples outnumber the normal, common humans. Same thing for magical artifacts - and notice that Gandalf primarily fights with a sword and staff, not "lightningbolt!" and "I'm gonna cast magic missile."
But I doubt it. It'll be EverCrack with all the stuff renamed after Tolkien stuff.
Funny you should say that - Ifnium is actually the perfect example of how modern capitalism has gone horribly horribly wrong. Capitalism may eliminate loser companies - but it doesn't eliminate the snake-oil salesmen who run them. They can, if sleek enough simply go onto bigger and better scams over and over again. Ifnium labs is run by a man with a less-than-steller track record for running businesses. Basically, a latter-day dotcommer, building business plans on promises, vapourware and venture capital. The console industry is an ideal place for this - gaming is extremely hype-driven, and appears to be a booming indusry. This is the ideal place to put a small company onto the market and with a little carefully placed buzzwords, watch the shares skyrocket.
That's fantastic. You go burn all your heavily (or completely) subsidized education diplomas, stop eating subsidized food, and never drive again, and tell me how intelligent it is.
Well, while Mike Moore is an asshat, his main thesis of BfC was pretty convincing: that the US is ruled by fear. The support for the war and suchlike (the terrorists are going to kill us if we don't attack!) along with all the "alerts" strongly supports this. Your decision to buy a gun to defend your ideals (one driven out of fear - if you didn't have the natural fear that someone could threaten your way of life, you wouldn't need one) suggests that further. Fear and sensible caution go hand in hand - on is just the intillectual counterpart of the other.
Now, here's the point: Republicans have commandeered fear. They use fear to lead the people. By this study, it explains the support they gained from the left - the right already supported them, through their cowboy-style, their social/religious conservatism, and the tax cuts. By cultivating fear, they can lead people who normally would vote on the left (for compassion) out of the fear they feel that something bad could happen (fuschia alert).
I keep reading posts on many forums where they say things like "I would vote against Bush, but I'm just not sure that Kerry would really protect America". To me, that sounds less like sensible, enlightened caution and more like visceral fear of being blown up.
Well, with recent events, voting Republican could be classified as a form of sociopathy. Not knowing what they were doing is the only excuse for having voted for Bush before - that excuse is gone.
After all, like the man said "fool me once, shame on me.... fool me twice.... you can't get fooled again" or something like that.
Heheh, XIII wouldn't run on my brother's computer, and he had to return it. Given that it was based on the UT2kN engine, and other such games would work fine on my PC, perhaps their stupid copy-protection crap was the real source of the problem?
Bush made his money in deals? No, he lost money in deals. He ran several businesses into the ground. He made his money the American way - Daddy arranged it all for him.
imho, this is the best move of MS ever. The.NET + XAML platform is long, long overdue. The ease and RAD of old VB combined with the speed and polish of an XML-based design system and a standardised language system, topped off with a Java-style VM that allows for secure, distributable code. Its everything I've always wanted - I can code a project in an easy, fun environment, post it online, and people will use it without worry that it's a trojan or something.
Amen, I've always thought the same thing. How much road rage could've been averted if someone had apologised? How often have people wanted to say "go ahead"?
Conversely, how often have you wanted to pick up the blonde in the next car. Or warn oncoming traffic that you just passed a speed trap. Or call the guy puttering along in the fast lane a retarded road-turd.
Either way, this is long overdue. CB has numerous usability issues that come from its nature as a radio transmission. Maybe that could be fixed now with more modern techniques?
For one thing, it will be remembered as the last movie that had actual, cool special effects besides simple 3d-rendered models. The fights in Matrix were 1/10th as spectacular as those in the sequels, but were so much more enjoyable and enthralling to watch because the actors were real humans and not models.
Maybe its just me, but I can still tell very, very easily when they switch over from meatspace people to 3d models in most movies, and somehow my eyes gloss over at the 3d human substitutes. Spiderman 2 was the only movie where I had difficulty telling, and that was because his costume is so inhuman looking already. In Harry Potter, LoTR, Van Helsing, and Matrix 2,3, all the CG scenes somehow just don't grip me the way the real meatspace scenes do. Its different in older movies where the CG was only used for wholly inhuman things, or in all-CG movies where the CG version _is_ the character, but in new movies where CG is just used for impossible stunts - it just becomes ignorable.
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While I know its not as good as IRV, this is why I like approval voting - people understand it. "vote for as many people as you want, whoever has the most votes wins".
IRV is a little harder - "Rank your preferences in order. In the event of a runoff that doesn't include your first choice, we'll use your second choice.
Look at the 2000 election and say that it worked.
a) people can't vote for third parties because their vote is wasted and they risk "spoiling". This means that people cannot vote for the person they want to be President. This is wrong.
b) majority did not rule. That is wrong. Anything other than popular vote is a mockery of the individual. One man, one vote, just like you said. Electoral college does not fit that description.
You can't tell me of the sixteen thousand bitmap file formats that there isn't one existing one with an open specification that doesn't fit the bill, and its just that camera companies are too combative to use it. To me this sounds like just another Adobe lock-in.
And people have been telling me that I don't need lossy images with alpha for years. Deal with it.
Right. Name one piece of mainstream software that supports any form of "arbitrary channel jpeg". And if I did do such a think, would it open in FireFox or exploder? I'm lucky if I can get a compression slider in most apps.
Just what the world needs. Another closed image format. Well, pdf beat gzipped postscript (and now MS is gonna give PDF a run for its money), so kiss png goodbye.
How about people work on something we actually need? Like a standard lossy format with support for alpha? There are nineteen gazillion common lossless systems, but only one common lossy system.
Simple: I live in basement appartments, the DSL box is in the computer room 2 floors up. Either a) I stard drilling holes in walls for cat5, or b) I go wireless. I went b, with a nice Linksys router and some G cards.
Side note: SP2 breaks D-Link PCI G cards. Yay MS.
Good god yes - developing Java for Domino is excruciating.
That's typical. Lawyers write the laws.
Engineers can lose their licenses, their careers, etc. simply for doing what they're told by their employers. Doctors can be sued into the dirt for screwing up.
Lawyers get paid no matter what.
Well, one unfortunate fact about Halo that other games do better (such as the aforementioned DoA games) is the splitscreen. Its more fun watching a single game than multiple small screen games split up out of one big screen. A multiplayer single-screen brawl game such as Bomberman, Super Smash Bros, or PowerStone II would be best, imho. Fast enough to run a tournament that way too, and let the whole audience play.
The reason they say its safer is because they took advantage of the new processor features that allow you to mark a block of memory as "non-executable" thus stopping buffer overrun 'sploits and similar problems. Linux doesn't have this feature.
The catch is this: most of the modern windows 'sploits aren't buffer overruns into non-executable memory, they're just malware using the MS application tools like ActiveX.
So, it is probably true that the Microsoft kernel is more secure than the Linux kernel. The respective operating systems, viewed from a holistic perspective, may not be.
Cripes that's creepy. Nice "security", Bill.
Now, I didn't RTFA, but I really hope that they don't make it like MERP (the Rolemaster based pnp rpg), where any player can just be a high-elf, or a half-elf, or a wizard, or an ent, or something else that's supposed to be rare as diamonds. Its a stupid world where the rare peoples outnumber the normal, common humans. Same thing for magical artifacts - and notice that Gandalf primarily fights with a sword and staff, not "lightningbolt!" and "I'm gonna cast magic missile."
But I doubt it. It'll be EverCrack with all the stuff renamed after Tolkien stuff.
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And maybe liberals are caused by inhaling too much pollution.
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And maybe Conservatives spend so much time around bullshit that they don't notice the smell when it comes from their party.
Hmmm.... that's not partisan moderating at all, now is it?
Funny you should say that - Ifnium is actually the perfect example of how modern capitalism has gone horribly horribly wrong. Capitalism may eliminate loser companies - but it doesn't eliminate the snake-oil salesmen who run them. They can, if sleek enough simply go onto bigger and better scams over and over again. Ifnium labs is run by a man with a less-than-steller track record for running businesses. Basically, a latter-day dotcommer, building business plans on promises, vapourware and venture capital. The console industry is an ideal place for this - gaming is extremely hype-driven, and appears to be a booming indusry. This is the ideal place to put a small company onto the market and with a little carefully placed buzzwords, watch the shares skyrocket.
That's fantastic. You go burn all your heavily (or completely) subsidized education diplomas, stop eating subsidized food, and never drive again, and tell me how intelligent it is.
Well, while Mike Moore is an asshat, his main thesis of BfC was pretty convincing: that the US is ruled by fear. The support for the war and suchlike (the terrorists are going to kill us if we don't attack!) along with all the "alerts" strongly supports this. Your decision to buy a gun to defend your ideals (one driven out of fear - if you didn't have the natural fear that someone could threaten your way of life, you wouldn't need one) suggests that further. Fear and sensible caution go hand in hand - on is just the intillectual counterpart of the other.
Now, here's the point: Republicans have commandeered fear. They use fear to lead the people. By this study, it explains the support they gained from the left - the right already supported them, through their cowboy-style, their social/religious conservatism, and the tax cuts. By cultivating fear, they can lead people who normally would vote on the left (for compassion) out of the fear they feel that something bad could happen (fuschia alert).
I keep reading posts on many forums where they say things like "I would vote against Bush, but I'm just not sure that Kerry would really protect America". To me, that sounds less like sensible, enlightened caution and more like visceral fear of being blown up.
And maybe Conservatives spend so much time around bullshit that they don't notice the smell when it comes from their party.
Well, with recent events, voting Republican could be classified as a form of sociopathy. Not knowing what they were doing is the only excuse for having voted for Bush before - that excuse is gone.
After all, like the man said "fool me once, shame on me.... fool me twice.... you can't get fooled again" or something like that.
Heheh, XIII wouldn't run on my brother's computer, and he had to return it. Given that it was based on the UT2kN engine, and other such games would work fine on my PC, perhaps their stupid copy-protection crap was the real source of the problem?
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Bush made his money in deals? No, he lost money in deals. He ran several businesses into the ground. He made his money the American way - Daddy arranged it all for him.
imho, this is the best move of MS ever. The .NET + XAML platform is long, long overdue. The ease and RAD of old VB combined with the speed and polish of an XML-based design system and a standardised language system, topped off with a Java-style VM that allows for secure, distributable code. Its everything I've always wanted - I can code a project in an easy, fun environment, post it online, and people will use it without worry that it's a trojan or something.
Well, if this does cover Skype and other ip-to-ip communication (which I doubt) - does it cover X-Box Live Voice Chat?
Brought down my IE too, and I'm all updated on this XP box.
Amen, I've always thought the same thing. How much road rage could've been averted if someone had apologised? How often have people wanted to say "go ahead"?
Conversely, how often have you wanted to pick up the blonde in the next car. Or warn oncoming traffic that you just passed a speed trap. Or call the guy puttering along in the fast lane a retarded road-turd.
Either way, this is long overdue. CB has numerous usability issues that come from its nature as a radio transmission. Maybe that could be fixed now with more modern techniques?
For one thing, it will be remembered as the last movie that had actual, cool special effects besides simple 3d-rendered models. The fights in Matrix were 1/10th as spectacular as those in the sequels, but were so much more enjoyable and enthralling to watch because the actors were real humans and not models.
Maybe its just me, but I can still tell very, very easily when they switch over from meatspace people to 3d models in most movies, and somehow my eyes gloss over at the 3d human substitutes. Spiderman 2 was the only movie where I had difficulty telling, and that was because his costume is so inhuman looking already. In Harry Potter, LoTR, Van Helsing, and Matrix 2,3, all the CG scenes somehow just don't grip me the way the real meatspace scenes do. Its different in older movies where the CG was only used for wholly inhuman things, or in all-CG movies where the CG version _is_ the character, but in new movies where CG is just used for impossible stunts - it just becomes ignorable.